The General Staff of the Iranian Armed Forces claims that a US Air Force F-35 fighter jet was shot down in the skies over the central part of the Islamic Republic.

“The US Air Force F-35 aircraft was shot down and destroyed in the skies over the central part of Iran. This was achieved with the help of the advanced air defense system of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps,” the spokesman for the General Staff of the Iranian Armed Forces said in a statement, the Iranian state television reports.

The Iranian military added that, in their assessments, “the probability that the crew members [of this F-35] managed to eject is low.”